US treasury and commerce departments targeted in cyber-attack – By BBC Staff (BBC) / Dec 14 2020
US federal agencies have been hacked in a way that may have let a foreign power monitor government communications.
The treasury and commerce departments have both been attacked.
And all federal civilian agencies have been told to disconnect from SolarWinds Orion, a computer network tool being exploited by “malicious actors”.
FireEye, a company that provides US government cyber-security, says it identified the problem after its own hacking tools were stolen last week.
Government, technology and telecom organisations across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East had all fallen victim to “a global campaign” employing “top-tier operations tradecraft and resources”, FireEye said.
And this was consistent with state-sponsored attackers “patiently conducting reconnaissance [and] consistently covering their tracks”.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was working closely with FireEye.
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